In the labyrinthine basement of Muma, a modern art gallery in Le Havre, curator Laurène Marin is showing me an array of French paintings, all bound for the Bowes Museum in County Durham. To my untrained eye, these colourful pictures look a...
CHRISTOPHER BRAY How Many Roads: A Life of Bob Dylan By Scott Peeples Reaktion £20 How Many Roads? How Many Books?, more like. Bob Dylan does not lack for biographies. It is true that Dylan is a protean artist whose tale might be told in...
Robert Louis Stevenson’s nanny, of whom he remained fond, always played with him, danced with him and told him stories. She was a strict Presbyterian – so the stories were biblical. Her accounts from the Old Testament and the Book of...
Walls are often built to control, oppress or exclude. Over time, as they crumble, they become visitor attractions, and places to walk. The walls built by Hadrian, by the Ming Dynasty and even by the German Democratic Republic make for...
